Chese who-so wyle, þair hertys to a-vaunce,
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ffre am I now, and fre wyll I endure;
To be Rulyd by mannys gouernaunce,
ffor erthly gode, nay! that I you ensure."
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(41) LAMANT.
"Loue, which þat [UT, om. H.] ioy and sorow doth depart,
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hath set þe [UH, yow T.] ladyes out of all seruage,
And largëly doth graunt hem, for þair [þar H, youre T.] part,
Lordschip and rule of euery maner age.
The pore seruaunt noght hath of [UH, hath noon T.] ávauntage
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But what he may get only of purcháce;
And he þat ones to loue dothe his omáge,
ffull often [ofte H, oft T.] tyme, der boght is the rechace." [UT, dere his richesse boughte has H. O. Fr. rachatz; Mod. Fr. rachat, redemption, ransom.—Skeat. 'Rachapt, a redemp|tion, redeeming, rebuying, recovery of a thing sold, by paying that for which it was sold.'—Cotgrave.]
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(42) LA DAME.
"Ladyes beth not so symple (þus I mene),
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So dulle of wyte, so sotyd [sottid H, dotyd T.] of folye,
That, for wordes which said ben of [UT are, om. H.] þe splene,
In fayr langáge, paynted ful plesantlye,
Which ye and mo [UH, me T.] holde scolys of [UT, scoolys holden H.] dailye, [dulye U, dieulye margin, daily H.]
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To make hem all [UT, of H.] grete wondyrs to suppose;
But sone thei cane, away her hedes [UT, þer hedys away H.] wrye,
And to fayr speche, lyghtly þair yerës close."
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(43) LAMANT.
"Þer is no man þat iangulith bysily [folio 124]
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And sette [UT, settith H.] his hert and all his mynd þerfor,
þat be reason may playn so pytously
As he þat hath myche hevynesse in store.
Whose hede is hole, [UH, nat sore T.] and saith þat hit is [UT, is nat T.] sore,
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his fayned chere is hard [UH, herde T.] to kepe in mewe;
